AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN JUZ ' XXXSIGNED HAFIZ MUHAMMAD AL-WAFA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1231/1815-16 ADAN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN JUZ' XXXSIGNED HAFIZ MUHAMMAD AL-WAFA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1231/1815-16 ADFollowed by Qur'an I, sura al-fatiha, Arabic manuscript on paper, 28ff. plus three flyleaves, 9ll. of elegant black naskh, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, text within thick black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, opening bifolio with lavish polychrome and gold rococo-style illuminated margins and headpiece, colophon signed and dated, in contemporaneous brown morocco decorated with gilt floral meander and tooled borders, blue paper doublures painted with gilt decoration, minor marginal repairs, overall good conditionText panel 53/4 x 31/2in. (14.4 x 8.7cm.); folio 9 3/8 x 61/4in. (23.8 x 15.7cm.)The fine rococo-style illumination of this manuscript is closely comparable to the Alif-Ba Mufredat now in the Topkapi Palace Library (inv.no.TSM.EH436, published in Nurhan Atasoy, A Garden for the Sultan: Gardens and Flowers in the Ottoman Culture, 2002, pp.190-1). There is an unmistakable resemblance between the treatment of the floral vases in both manuscripts which strongly suggests that they were illuminated by the same artist or, at the very least, artists working in the same court workshop. The fine illumination of this manuscript is complemented by the elegant naskh script. The scribe, Mehmet al-Wafa was known as Hisari, born in the Hisar district of Istanbul, and was active during the reign of Sultan Mahmud II (r.1808-1839). His mastery of the script has been praised by Ottoman historian Habib Efendi who applauds him as “the leader of calligraphers of his age…” [asrında hattat-ı piş-kadem…] (Habib Efendi, Khatt u Khattatan, Matbaa-i Ebuzziya, Kostantiniyye, AH 1305/1887 AD, p.179).细节 AN ILLUMINATED QURAN JUZ XXXSIGNED HAFIZ MUHAMMAD AL-WAFA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1231/1815-16 ADFollowed by Quran I, sura al-fatiha, Arabic manuscript on paper, 28ff. plus three flyleaves, 9ll. of elegant black naskh, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, text within thick black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, opening bifolio with lavish polychrome and gold rococo-style illuminated margins and headpiece, colophon signed and dated, in contemporaneous brown morocco decorated with gilt floral meander and tooled borders, blue paper doublures painted with gilt decoration, minor marginal repairs, overall good conditionText panel 53/4 x 31/2in. (14.4 x 8.7cm.); folio 9 3/8 x 61/4in. (23.8 x 15.7cm.) 来源 The Saeed Motamed Collection 注意事项 No VAT on hammer price or buyers premium.